Mindset Moves Obstacles: A Writing Therapy Exercise

Just to follow along the same theme as last week’s blog post, I want to emphasize the importance of placing more focus on the aspects of our lives that are good and taking more of the focus away from the things that are going wrong in our lives.

Mental movement in the direction of basking in more of the good stuff in life gives us the drive . . . the fuel . . . the energy to keep going and doing something about the undesirables.

Because, let’s face it. When you’re depleted of the will or energy or desire to do something about the boisterous (very loud) negatives in life that try to drown out any of the good stuff happening, then the takeover has begun.

And, we can easily live in the — well, I guess that’s my lot in life or that’s just the way it is for me (not much I can do about it) or it’s my burden to bear or it is what it is and I have no expectations that it’ll ever change.

In other words, we give up the fight.

And, life is a fight sometimes. Maybe a lot of the time for some.  But, it’s a fight worth fighting for.

A fight . . . for the right . . . to —

The good things in life!

Yes, indeed. Sometimes, we have to FORCE the good . . . the positives to have preeminence in our world.

And, who knows. Maybe you’re already traveling along this path to “overemphasizing the good” in conducting your life business. But, it can be a real challenge for some, requiring a complete mindset shift.

After all, you instinctively know the law of life physics. You just may not be existing within it. It’s the law that says the positives in life just allow you to flow in your wellbeing. They don’t work against you; they work for you. So, you’re not having to trek the uphill battle to make those little (but mighty), incremental life improvements, and therefore, the energy reserves are a-building.

You’re not going against the current, but you’re riding the waves when life’s positives are magnified. Going against the grain? What’s that? Because, the energy-depleting negatives get downplayed when the things in life are just clicking.

But when the negatives of life become larger than life, then enjoying the “good life” seems very far away instead of a promising object of focus in your vantage point. It’s almost as if the obstacles in the path toward emphasizing the good put a hedge between you and your desire to life-improve.

And in order to stay on that path to the “good life” or the “overemphasizing the good” in life, you have to exert some of that energy that gets stored up when life is positively flowing. Yes, the energy gets depleted when either moving that obstacle out of the way permanently (the preferred choice) or going around it.

And let me just say that going around the obstacle can keep you moving forward on the path to good, so it’s a totally viable option but not the most advantageous to you. Why? Well, because you give the obstacle a chance to come from behind and chase you down on the path you’re traveling when you manage it in a way that allows it to possibly show up again — later on — to slow down your progress.

Nevertheless, either way (by moving the obstacle or going around it), you’re working hard for the right to . . .

The good things in life!

So, I think it’s safe to say that MINDSET DRIVES ACTION.

And if mindset drives action, then we’d better get the old noggin working on behalf of the overall good of self.

So, your writing therapy assignment for this week will piggyback off of the writing therapy assignment from last week’s blog post, Writing Therapy Exercise: Let Your Positives Outweigh the Negatives, where I mentioned —

Let’s take the negatives in our lives and do something positive with them.

That’s the ONLY way to shrink those negatives lists of ours . . .

Yep, that sounds exactly like what I said.

So, I want you to take your negatives list from last week, and I want you to think how those negatives create obstacles on your path to the “good life.” Write those revelations down.

Then, I want you to identify what kind of mindset (way of thinking) will be required to either move (preferable) or to go around that negative, creating the obstacle in your path. And, write down those revelations, too.

By the way, let me know if this voluntary assignment is as clear as mud. Because if it is, then I’m not doing a very good job of making the appropriate connections for you. And, I definitely want these writing therapy exercises to be of benefit to you in your life-improvement journey.

So, please leave me a comment with any questions for clarification on this writing therapy exercise or any of the others I’ve given to you for your use. Oh, and I just love hearing from you, in general. So, any other comments (constructive ones, please) are welcomed, as well.